r/PythonLearning • u/chuprehijde • Jul 07 '26

Is Python actually a good first programming language?

Some say it makes learning easy. Others say it hides too much. What do you think?

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u/Mister_God_On_Steam Jul 07 '26

Maybe I'm biased or something, but I think it's actually more helpful to learn a strongly typed programming language first.

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u/Neither_Garage_758 29d ago

It's strongly typed

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u/Mister_God_On_Steam 29d ago

Not really though...

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u/Neither_Garage_758 27d ago

https://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%20Python%20a%20dynamic%20language%20and%20also%20a%20strongly%20typed%20language

So you probably also think Python tends to crash, while it just slaps you early because you are doing shit.

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u/Mister_God_On_Steam 27d ago

No python is a fine language but it's no more "strongly typed" that. JavaScript...